Supported Mezzanine Cards And Switches - Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Manual

Figure 15. Difference between pass-through and switch modules

Supported mezzanine cards and switches

Dell supports one mezzanine design standard and one I/O module design standard for true modular
computing. Supported I/O modules include:
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PowerConnect M6220 switch (GbE, 10GbE uplinks)
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PowerConnect M6348 switch (high port count 1GbE, 10GbE uplinks)
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PowerConnect M8024-k (10Gb Ethernet)
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Dell Networking MXL 10/40GE
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Dell PowerEdge M I/O Aggregator
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Dell M8428-k (10Gb converged networking/FCoE)
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Cisco Catalyst 3032 (1Gb Ethernet)
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Cisco Catalyst 3130G (1Gb Ethernet, stacking)
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Cisco Catalyst 3130x (1GbE+ 10GbE uplinks, stacking)
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1Gb Ethernet pass-through module
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10Gb Ethernet pass-through module (original model, for 10Gb XAUI mezz cards)
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10Gb Ethernet pass-through II (for 10Gb XAUI mezz cards)
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10Gb Ethernet pass-through-k (for 10Gb KR mezz cards/NDCs)
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Brocade M5424 (8/4Gbps Fibre Channel switch)
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Brocade M4424 (4Gbps Fibre Channel switch)
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